Guantanamo detainees take fight to US Supreme Court
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WASHINGTON — Condemned by the lower house of the US Congress to remain in Guantanamo Bay indefinitely, “War on Terror” detainees are taking their cases to the Supreme Court (SC), hoping it can break them out.
The House of Representatives last week approved a bill that would prevent any detainees held in the US naval base in Cuba from being transferred to the United States for detention or trial.
But eight cases are pending in the highest US court, representing nearly all of the prison’s more than 170 detainees and reflecting their diverse legal predicaments, with final rulings expected in 2011.
US President Barack Obama vowed to shut down the controversial military prison during his 2008 White House run and issued an executive order shortly after assuming office to close it by January 2010.
But Obama has missed his own deadline as the administration has run into knotty legal issues, difficulties in finding countries to accept detainees and congressional opposition to trying them in US courts..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101215com3.html
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